>> mr. bernstein, let's talk weather. >> anybody going up to the parade at 10:45, which we'll be streaming here live, it should be in the 30s with not too much wind. that's good news. upper 30s that is. even if it was 15 degrees, it would be a good day for ravens fans, right? we have a mix of clouds and sunshine today. 43 by lunch time. mild we are high temperatures in the mid-40s. 5:00 that's not going to be 36. it's going to be closer to 43 or so by 5:00. we'll have a high of 46 degrees. we did have some snow yesterday. it was mainly in the mountains. the air east of the mountains too dry so we had very little if any snow and sprinkles. temps now, they're in the upper 20s in gaithersburg and westminster. it's 33 in annapolis and easton. 35 in la plata. look at this in fredricksburg, still 41. 31 in winchester. highs today from the low 50s south to the low 40s north and 46 here in the district. monika samtani stepping in now with your timesaver traffic. i still have good news for

commuters. things look great. no issues to report on any of our major thoroughfares. we're looking good coming in from the west and the north, we'll start off there. on the southbound side of i- 270, whether coming in from i- 70, 270, 121 and germantown, all of your lanes are open. let's go outside live and show what you it looks like in college park. coming in from 95 in baltimore, route 1 over here in college park toward silver spring, everything looks good on 495 as well in prince george's county. let's go back to the maps, this time heading in from the west, 66 not a bad ride in from manassas, sterling, herndon, reston, dulles toll road looks great in the tysons area. another live look outside. this time we're heading to 395 at shirlington to the 14th street bridge. nice and light. back to you. >> thanks, monika. today the ravens fans who didn't get to go to new orleans can celebrate their super bowl champs. >> baltimore is throwing a parade. it starts at city hall at 10:45 this morning. it will end at m&t bank stadium.

if you can't be there in person, you can watch it all live on our website wusa9.com. and after the 7:00 p.m. newscast, we'll have a game on purple rain special. wusa9 reporter delia goncalves has more on the huge welcome the team is going to be getting. good morning, delia. andrea, mike. ood morning, purple rain, purple passion, purple punch. i've heard it all i guess. i talked to -- any work is getting done in baltimore because of all the partying going o. a celebration a dozen years in the making. the plane carrying the super bowl champs touched down in the baltimore area yesterday. players were greeted like super stars as folks surrounded the vince lombardi trophy. the trophy the team admits to losing temporarily. look at all the fans outside waiting for those buses as they pulled into the lot. fans and players say this is a win for the whole city. >> oh, my god, aim so excited for them. >> i was like jumping all over

the place, couldn't stop moving. >> what a message to give to people when you're going out on retirement. i'm really proud of ray for that. >> baltimore showed up. they definitely helped us out a lot. >> we talk over the super dome and new orleans. it was like little baltimore down there. >> we're sharing it with our baltimore family now. >> i love you. see you all soon. >> that's right, we will see you soon. we will see several thousands of his fans soon, lots of folks expected to attend today's victory parade. it begins at city hall around 10:45 and ends with a free huge party at ravens stadium around 12:30. coming up in next half-hour, joe flacco talked to dave letterman last night fresh from his trip to disney world. you'll want to hear it. >> a whirlwind 24 hours that ended with dave. i'm looking forward to that. d.c. police are asking for help. they are looking for a missing

6-year-old. investigators are not calling this an amber alert but they do believe the child is with a noncuss toadial parent and may have left the city. she was last seen the night of thursday, january 31 in the 2000 block of e street in northeast. she was wearing purple pants, jacket and silver boots. if you can help or have any information, call d.c. police 202-727-9099. an investigation is under way into the cause of a blaze that injured five firefighters in baltimore. about 100 firefighters responded to the scene on pennsylvania avenue when the building became unstable, the call went out to evacuate. firefighters were in the process of leaving the three- story brick building when it collapsed. the five injured firefighters are all expected to recover. the building housed a lumber company and this morning it is all charred rubble. arlington county police are looking for four men after a smash and grab at a jewelry

store and the subsequent robbery. surveillance video shows the men entering the zales at pentagon mall yesterday at 11:00 in the morning. they used hammers to smash the display cases inside the store and all four men grabbed jewelry and took off. the value of the stolen jewels $128,000. if you have any information, please call arlington county police. it is 5:05. time for the latest your money report of the morning. >> jessica doyle is here. wall street didn't look so good yesterday. >> sometimes you can't fight gravity. stocks go up. stocks can go down. that's what we saw with triple digit losses yesterday. you can blame concerns about europe. that was the latest but really what's going on here, we had this mottest sell-off after the best january since 1997. checking the numbers, the dow stands this morning back below 14,000 but not too far below after sliding 129 points. the nasdaq was off by 47 points and the s&p 500 was down by 17.

the u.s. government plans to file a civil lawsuit against the ratings agency standard and poors. this goes back to the 2008 financial crisis. is accuses s&p giving high ratings to risky mortgage bonds that led to the crisis over four years ago n. would mark the federal government's first legal action against a major ratings agency over the mortgage debacle. s&p denies any wrongdoing and says this lawsuit is without merit. when is the last time you bought a dell computer? that's one of the problems michael dell is wrestling with and part of the reason why he's close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take his company private. "the wall street journal" says dell was in talks last night with microsoft and private equity firms to fund a deal. it would give shareholders about 25% more than the stock is worth right now. dell is trying to remake itself in an era when the pc is no longer king. >> does dell have -- maybe they

do and i've never heard of it, do they have a tablet? i've never seen one. >> they have multiple platform technologies but it is a pc- based company. so they're trying to remake that because the pc is just not selling anymore. it's corporate clients primarily. everybody still has some sort of computer at home but it's probably a laptop. >> thanks, jess. >> what do you have in the next half-hour? >> how safe are you when you go online to check your facebook page or pay your bills. we're going to find out for you and give you some thoughts about staying a little bit safer. >> looking forward to that. thanks, jess. an alabama town is relieved this morning after the rescue of a boy held hostage for six days. that story coming up. >> our neighbors to the north are taking a major step to steamline their coinage. >> and ahead in sports, the wizards caught a huge break in last night's game against the clippers. we'll have highlights. we'll

welcome back. 5:09 on this tuesday morning. chilly out there. we have a few 20s, low 30s. partly cloudy skies. perhaps a few flurries tonight. low 50s south. only the low 40s places like frederick over toward winchester. back with your seven-day forecast in five minutes. right now monika with timesaver traffic. turning out to be a pretty terrific tuesday. no problems to report on the beltway here. near new hampshire avenue leaving the 95 interchange right into silver spring and all of your major thoroughfares into the beltway coming in from upper montgomery county look great as well. back with more in a few. here's a look at what's new this morning. the little boy at the center of a six-day standoff in alabama is safe today. f.b.i. agents say they stormed the underground bunker when the suspect started acting more irrationally. agents shot and killed 65-year- old jimmy lee dykes and rescued young ethan who was taken to the hospital just as a

precaution. the horrible explosion in mexico's pmex oil company was caused by a gas buildup. most of deaths and serious injuries happened when the building collapsed. it's an idea that's been floated around here for years but condition today got to it first. our neighbors to the north are now facing -- phasing out the penny coin. canadian pennies are being collected to melted down. purchases will be rounded up or down to the nearest five cents. the good news is we're getting warmer. >> but howard has some rain messing up the forecast. messing up the forecast. we'll join this is dylan right , this is dylan, and this is his big brother hayden. dylan's only five, but he's already been through two surgeries for brain tumors. and he just went through his second round of chemo. and this is their mother, dawn, who runs this loving and happy home. she too struggled with tumors. but that doesn't slow her down.

her love of family comes first. their dad, phil, works two jobs, repairing copiers, and on weekends delivering newspapers. but the bills keep piling up, and the heating bill gets pushed off. when you learn about their difficulties, it just breaks your heart. when we asked the biggest oil companies to help families in need, only citgo, the people of venezuela, and president hugo chavez responded. thanks to them, citizens energy is able to deliver millions of gallons of fuel to families just like the berios. i'm joe kennedy. if you need help staying warm, call me at 1-877-joe-4-oil. because no one should be left out in the cold! we gotta sell the car. where would we even start? get the car. hi howard. get in.

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5:14. welcome back to wusa9. howard is here. things are warming up but we're also looking at a little rain. >> upper baltimore, should be fine. climbing into the low 40s. the big party at m ask tp -- m&t stadium. here's a look at your day planner. it will be a milder day. so we're liking that. temperatures into the mid-40s which actually is right about average for this time of year

with partly to mostly cloudy skies and variable winds about 5 miles an hour or so. so we won't have that biting wind to deal with, although tomorrow is going to be breezier. a system came through overnight. hit the mountains. winter storm warnings have been dropped in garrett county. you can see a little bit of snow from eastern pennsylvania through metro new york and connecticut this morning. some showers trying to reach the ground southeast of us although the air very, very dry. it's cold to the north. low 20s in williamsport, new york. we have 40s from richmond and norfolk and roanoke this morning all above the 40-degree mark. outside on our michael & son weather camera, showing the u.s. capitol building. temperature in town 35 with calm winds, mostly cloudy skies. the dew point 26 giving us a relative humidity of 70%. we're not too cold except places like buffalo. at would on the edge -- on the

wa on the edge -- ottawa on the edge of it. 6 below zero. 58 in dallas. warmer time over the next few daitz with the clouds still moving generally west to east across the country. we do have another little clipper coming across wisconsin this morning toward northwestern illinois. this could produce a few flurries around here late today, tonight. looks like that will be passing to our north. when clippers pass to our north, they don't do much for us. you'll notice this one that came through. had a tough time dropping much east of the mountains. so on the futurecast, we'll look at this scoot quickly to the east. we stay with partly to mostly cloudy skies today, highs in the mid-40s. tonight is not going to be too bad. partly cloudy. could be more snow showers in the mountains, especially tonight. we'll see temperatures dropping into the 30s. some 20s north and west. then tomorrow the sunshine returns. it will be a breezy day with temperatures back in the mid- 40s. even thursday looks about the same but by friday, that's going to be our next chance of

precip. that will be in the form of rain around here. looks like rain for most of us. 46, milder today. partly to mostly cloudy. 33 tonight in d.c. some 20s north and west. could be a flurry or two. 46 tomorrow with a breezy day. northwest winds 10 to 15. all annoy the difference tomorrow. thursday increasing clouds. showers likely friday, 47. 45 on saturday. 52 on sunday and more rain on monday, temperatures above 50. monika samtani, it's tuesday morning. things are still looking good, right? >> things are looking dilutely fantastic. no problems to report. no delays right now on your major thoroughfares. all overnight construction pretty much cleared up for the morning. what could be better. on the northbound side of i-95, it's great triangle, dumfries, woodbridge. everything is nice and light right now. let's take a live look on the northbound side of i-95 in spring field. this is what you consider light at this time of the morning on the northbound side of 95. you can see there are no delays

on the main or the hov lanes right now. let's go back to the maps, this time over to 95 coming in from baltimore. if you're heading up north right now, you'll be okay to their beltway. let's take a live look again outside, this time on the beltway in prince george's county. south of route 50 in the new carrollton-landover area, both loops of the beltway doing just fine this morning. i'll be back in a few minutes. mike and andrea? >> thank you, monika. it is a miracle. >> apparently the wizards are no longer the worst team in the nba. highlights from last night coming up. >> who knew. plus ravens coach john harbaugh talks about the support from the baltimore fan base. stay tuned. sports is coming up. let's take another look at the question of the morning. what is the one thing women wish their mom had taught their men? is it a, put down the toilet seat, b, how to iron clothes or c, how to ask for directions. >> one viewer wrote probably

all three but the one that puts the toilet seat down and wipe it off. >> nasty. log on to our nation book page. we --

welcome back. your weather first on this tuesday morning. it's cold out there. plenty of clouds and a few breaks. we're starting with temperatures mainly in the 30s. a few upper 20s and snow showers in the mountains. we've got a few school delays out west, but most of the snow

is winding down for now. partly to mostly cloudy today. you certainly need the jackets. 37 by noon. mostly cloudy, 43 at noon with 39 in winchester and 46 in fredricksburg and highs this afternoon in mostplaces mid- to upper 40s. so you'll need the jackets for that. well, good morning, everybody. beyonce, wow. her act so hot at the super bowl, it blew up the fuse box and shut the lights down. actually the commissioner says no correlation between the two. but did you see beyonce? wow. from destiny's child to destiny's team. the ravens returning to baltimore yesterday champions. shortly after 5:00 their plane touching down at bwi and the motorcade heading back to owings mills. today a parade and celebration downtown. head coach john harbaugh figures ravens nation will be

out flying in a large flock. >> we just can't imagine. with the sendoff we had when we went out there which i never heard of a sendoff for the super bowl. maybe some other cities have had it. we had thousands and thousands of people there for that. can't imagine what this parade is going to be like. >> it will be great. wusa9 will stream today's parade and a rally live on our website wusa9.com at around 10:45. then tune in for our live special. we call it game on: purple reign tonight at 7:30 right here on wusa9. wizards, clippers last night. no griffin or chris paul for the clippers. that made things easy. strike a pose. there ain't nothing to it. 5:06 from deep. he had 21. wizardses by 5 at the half. garrett temple was lighting it up as well. he was one of five players in double figures and john wall got it going too. on a mission. wizards no longer the worst

record in the nba. they win last night 98-90. dar lot the worst -- charlotte the worst team in the nba. that's a look at your morning sports. have a great tuesday, everybody. we'll have more on that huge welcome home the ravens will be getting from their fans coming up. >> plus, your morning commute might get to kick up a notch. we'll explain on why one of the newest highways may be going agent faster. >> going pretty fast on the beltway on the outer loop side from new hampshire avenue to silver spring. all lanes open going at or above the speed limit this morning on the north side of town. we'll be back in a few minutes with more news, weather and

good monk. welcome -- good morning. welcome back to wusa9 on this tuesday morning. i'm andrea roane. i'm mike hydeck. mr. bernstein, how are you? >> we do have some school delays. grant, hampshire, morgan and pendleton in west virginia two- hour delays and allegany and glare yet in maryland two-hour delays. they had snow in the mountains. we did not. skiing pretty good if you can get out there. take advantage of it while we've got the cold around. weather wise, we've got a chilly start. we're in the 30s with a few upper 20s. we will see highs today in the mid-40s in town. we're going to make a run toward 50, 34r5euss -- places like fredricksburg and culpeper but the low 40s is what we're going to do -- fredricksburg, culpeper, excuse me. frederick will only be in the low 40s to our north. this is a system we're watching scoot east through new york and hartford now headed toward providence.

to the west we've got another system coming on the northwest flow. we've had all these little pieces of energy the last several -- really the last couple of weeks but they haven't amounted to much for us. our temperatures, still above 40 in fredericksburg. luray 41. same with the tappahannock and pax river naval air station. 31 baltimore. 32 frederick and 30 in martinsburg. should be in the upper 30s around 10:45 for the parade up in baltimore. monika, good morning. happy tuesday. good morning. happy tuesday. that's exactly what it is out on the roadways this morning. there are no issues to report on our major thiewr refairs. where is -- thoroughfares. where is everybody? northbound 95 if you're planning to head up into baltimore for the parade later this morning, right now things are looking great. no problems on 29, 32, or the bw parkway leaving fort meade into laurel and greenbelt. you're absolutely fine. let's take a live look outside and show what you it looks like if you're planning to head here beyond all of that corridor

over to route 50, coming in on route 50 looks good as well from annapolis. no issues to report right now. back to the maps, this time heading in from the west. looking good on 66. a few brake lights maybe as you leave manassas to centreville but that's about t. one more last live look outside, this time heading on to northbound 395 in shirlington and the 14th street bridge. all lanes are open, no delays. one maryland road is about to get a little faster. the maryland transportation authority has announced plans to increase the speed limit on the intercounty connector from 55 to 60 miles an hour. drivers say 55 is just too slow on a brand new road with so little traffic. that's an understatement. the mta says a study found the road can handle the increased speed limit and should take effect by the end of next month. back to you guys. >> all right, monika. three tenth grade boys are back in class despite facing child pornography charges. >> the teens go to west springfield high school. they're accused of making some

sex videos with six girls from several schools. police say they learned about these videos in december and they conducted a month-long investigation. >> on january 11, we arrested three west springfield high school student, all three boys, two 16 and one 15. each charged with reproduction, distribution, solicitation and facilitation of child pornography. >> several students and parents told wusa9 that these guys are attending class as usual. the fairfax county school board member says they were not made aware of the charges till last friday. now the system can only a disciplinary hearing on the students alleged behavior. this evening a fund-raiser will be held for the survivors of last week's deadly hours fire in miersville, maryland. two of the four daughters died in the blaze that destroyed the family's home on highland avenue. the parents and two surviving girls are grieving and they're

homeless. the chik-fil-a owner -- you a awed. as well as donating -- [ inaudible ] -- as well as donating profits to the family. police are investigating an overnight armed robbery near the university of maryland. the female student told officers she was walking just after midnight when a masked man approached her at paint branch parkway and rhode island avenue. he showed her a gun and demanded money. police gave the all clear after determining the suspect took off from the area. today the baltimore ravens will celebrate their super bowl xlvii championship with the purple nation. >> baltimore is throwing a ravens parade. it runs from city hall to m&t bank stadium and starts at 10:45 this morning. if you can't make it to the charm city, we will be streaming it live on wusa9.com and then tonight, 7:30, don't miss our special game on: purple reign. delia goncalves has more on the

fest iforts. she joins us -- festivities. she joins us from the satellite center. >> reporter: good morning. the coach told reporters last night that the win finally felt real when they landed in baltimore and saw the sea of fans who were all there to greet them and welcome them home. let's take a look at some video of their arrival yesterday. players were greeted as superstars as they got off the plan at bwi. when the line of coach buses pulled up, dozens of fans cheered their arrival but the ravens qb was not on that bus. joe flacco had a busy couple of days. stopped by disney world and stopped by david letterman with the audience greeted him with a standing ovation. >> earlier in the year when i wasn't signing what they wanted me to sign he said listen, when the time comes, you can come and beat on my desk. i said all right, i'll take you up on that.

i think the time has co. my favorite moment was the fourth down and them not getting it and us knowing we could run the clock down and get it to where we got it and win the game. >> reporter: when you mentioned purple nation, you were not kidding. everything is purple. people are wearing purple head to toe. take a look. even the popcorn in baltimore is purple. raven flavor popcorn. we picked this up at a tent carrying a whole lot of team merchandise. folks are snacking on this and picking up all the purple they can wear so they can gear up and be prepared for today's big parade and welcome their team and take a look at that vince lombardi trophy for themselves. we'll have a close look at the purple nation and what folks are saying there coming up in the next half-hour. >> and those banners and that feeling was all season long when you come down the main drag in baltimore, you see-- >> by the harbor. >> by the harbor. the tower johns hopkins was lit

up purple. they were there for the long haul. >> reporter: they love their team. >> absolutely. win or lose they love their team. all right, delia, thanks. 5:35. the world of things online can be a thrill and sometimes a bit overwhelming, too. >> yes, it can. but today is dedicated to making sure everyone on the internet can have a positive experience. we'll have more on safer internet

your weather first on this tuesday morning. chilly out here. thankfully the winds are light. we didn't have much in the way of precip east of the mountains. west of the mountains we have a lot of school delays. let's show you the forecast for today because we are going to see partly to mostly cloudy skies. a big range in temperatures from 42 in our northern suburbs to 52 in fredericksburg. i think we'll be around 46 here in the district. flurries possible tonight. i'll be back in a few minutes. i have a relatively mild seven-

day forecast. it's all coming up. right now inside to monika with timesaver traffic. here's what it looks like on the west side of town at the american legion bridge crossing the river into bethesda. all lanes are open. things are looking good on 66 as well into the tysons area. i'll be back with more in a few minutes. >> thanks, monika. join us on our facebook page to take a question guess at a -- to take a guess at the question of the morning. what is it most women say they wish their mother had taught them. is it a, how to put the toilet seat down, b, how it iron clothes, or c, how to ask for directions. >> i'm going to say all above. i would guess the answer is c. >> log on on to the wusa9 facebook fan page. we veal your response.

-- reveal your response. you work out most days and you watched your portion size for the few -- for a couple months to a year. >> but if you get your healthy resolutions -- if your healthy resolutions are slipping away, we'll help you get back on track. >> let's see who's celebrating a birthday today.

today is the 10th safer internet day encowrning all of us to -- encouraging us all to be more cautious. joining us is dan,. he is up early in san fran. thanks so much for joining us. i want to tell you, my stepdad just got hacked. he's in his 70s. i know hacking is bad, viruses are bad but how bad is it out there? >> well, of course it's something that affects many, many people. my father had to deal with something recently too where he was concerned that his e-mail had been hacked. so this is -- it's something people have to think about on a regular basis. so for us on safer internet day, it's about creating an awareness, talking to different companies and of course people who use the internet and really instilling this idea of being vigilant and coming up with lots of tips and tools they can use along the way. >> we've all gotten a lot more

savvy about this kind of stuff in recent years because of the viruses and things happening to our parents and ourselves. but what are some warning signs that cybercriminals could be targeting us that we may not even realize? >> it's generally a rule of thumb if you think something is suspicious, then it probably is but your computer could be running a bit slow. you could get strange pop-up screens coming up. all of this is an indication you could possibly have some sort of bad software running in your computer. it's never too late of course to try to run some antivirus software, get all of that off there. one of the things we talked about is being preventive with this. we launched our good to know website. we have tons of tips to think about a stronger, more secure password, not sharing that with anybody, avoiding these kind of scams you can come across online and really just thinking about this every day and sort of making it part of your routine. >> thank you so much for giving us these tips. this is fantastic.

thanks for waking up with us. >> you bet. my pleasure. >> i will send it over to howard. snow in the mountains yesterday. we have some school delays. grant, hampshire, hardy, mineral, morgan and pendleton in west virginia on a two-hour delay and allegany and garrett in maryland on a two-hour delay. good visibility here in d.c., no delays. temperatures running in the low 50s to low 50s. i want to show you the day planner as temperatures will climb to 44 by 1:00. 45 by 3:00. high today i think 46 in the district but south of town fredricksburg, you could be 50, 52. up toward frederick, hagerstown, upper 30s to low 40s. last night had the snow in the mountains and now we're watching that system quickly move toward the east. a little bit of snow across the new york metro and the showers, most of them not reaching the ground there in the southern part of the delmarva. cold air to the north, 23. providence 24. pittsburgh 27. but low 40s in richmond and

norfolk. still 41 in fredricksburg last check. here in d.c., we've got partly cloudy skies. a temperature of 35. another good thing about today, no wind this morning. so you don't have that biting windchill. the humidity, though, is 70%. so the air is kind of dry. that's one of the reasons yesterday when the snow showers were coming across the mountains, they just never really made it down to the ground. there's some arctic air in eastern canada nosing down toward northern new england. there's for push of real arctic air into the state. for the next several days, even the next week or so, we look seasonable if not above seasonable temperatures running in the mid-40s. you can follow the clouds which are generally moving west to southeast across the country. when they're moving like that that zonal flow, well, things move fast. we've had a lot of little stels. you don't -- little systems. you don't generally get anything too big. the real cold gets stuck up in canada. our next weather maker, trying to be our next weather maker

coming through wisconsin. looks like the energy for that and moisture will pass -- most of it, 90% of it, will pass north of us. we can't rule out flurries and more snow showers for the mountains later today and tonight but this pattern we're in, snow lovers, it's not a good one for us east of the mountains. it's been fine for the ski areas. today partly to mostly cloudy skies. temperatures climb into the mid- 40s for the vast majority of you out there. the snow showers tonight, you see them once again flying in the mountains out to the west. we'll see partly cloudy skies and a stray flurry or two. tomorrow we'll clear out some but it will be a much breezier day. winds northwest 10 to 15. gusts over 20 miles an hour. temperatures about the same but with the winds, well, it's going to feel colder. even on thursday we start out with some sunshine but the clouds will increase and looks like our next weather maker will be friday and it's going to be warm enough for just about rain everywhere.

46 today, milder. partly to mostly cloudy. 33 tonight. can't rule out a flurry but 20s north and west. tomorrow a breezy day for your wednesday, 46. thursday 47 with increasing clouds in the afternoon. by friday still in the upper 40s with rain around. saturday and sunday dry and seasonably mild, 52 sound. more showers possible on monday. we go over to monika samtani. we're getting closer to 6:00 a.m. more volume. now we've got some issues. we do. if you're planning to head into manassas park, manassas drive at courtney drive, watch out for the accident there. and on the ramp from route 234 to get on to inbound i-66, a deer struck on the ramp there in manassas. manassas itself coming in on 66 looks okay into centreville and fairfax no issues right now. we'll take a live look on the northbound side of 395. here's what it looks like north of duke street. you can see a bit of volume building but no real issues as you head to the 14th street bridge. main and hov lanes look great.

back to the maps this time heading over to gw parkway coming inbound right now leaving the beltway, american legion bridge. all of that corridor looks great. no problems on the beltway through tysons corner. we'll take a last live look this time heading to the other side of town in maryland i believe. southbound 270. it's already slow. 109 to 121. and delia, tell us what's going to go on in baltimore later today. >> reporter: listen, we love our redskins here in washington. but we're heavy on purple pride this morning. the baltimore redskins return home and i'll have much more on the homecoming celebrations coming up in about ten minutes. andrea, back to you. >> thank you, delia. it is a time of year when many americans are giving up that new year's resolution to lose weight and get in shape. today we have some inspiration for you in this pint size little woman here. she wrote a book called half my size: how i ate to lose about 150 pounds. author carolyn is here. welcome to 9news.

looking at you, it is hard to believe that when she was in eighth grade, you weighed 300 pounds. >> yes, i did. >> you say it wasn't just 300 pounds. it was even more than that. >> it was 307. this was on a 5'2" body frame. >> my goodness. what was the trigger? what caused such weight gain for you? >> i became a food addict. i looked to food as a means of coping when i lost two cousins that i was very close to. they were like sisters, in a car accident. food was my drug that i looked to for coping. that's where i reached over 300 pounds on the scale. >> you find there is some sort of trigger like that, an emotional loss or some sort of trauma that does trigger it but we never think of it as happening in someone so young as you in eighth grade. >> yes. >> but what was the turning point that went from 307 pounds to what we see here today? >> i didn't really have a -- really have my aha moment till in my 20s. i felt like my weight was a big

speed bump my entire life. i didn't have the guy friends, wasn't able to shop at the cute places. i said i'm tired of being heavy. i'm ready to lose weight and i'll going to do this. >> you did this ten years ago. >> yes. >> she's maintained this beautiful frame. what are some misconceptions people have about gaining and then losing weight that contributes to staying off ten years. >> i think my first advice is any diet that sounds too good to be true is usually is. weight loss has to be a slow and consistent process. one thing that's really important is you need to be consistent with both the diet and exercise. there's no magic pill. there's no magic drink. it has to be a hundred percent diet, exercise, a lot of bad hair days, and it's really worth the sacrifice. that's how you keep it off. >> did you do it on your own or have a program to help you a nutritionist to help you? because we said you ate to lose all of this weight. >> right. i didn't do any commercialized weight loss programs or anything like that i went to see my family doctor.

his advice to me was you have these dark blotches on your skin. that's an indication that you're prediabetic. i want you to start eating like a diabetic patient and i eliminated all white floods from my diet. that means flour, sugar, pasta. just by walking every day, i started to see results pretty quickly. >> what are you working on right now? >> i'm taking myself to the next level and working with celebrity fitness mark jenkins and i'm working on a series of dinners called conversations with care line. you'll be able to come and have dinner and ask me additional questions. two restaurants have signed on. >> you definitely want to do that and again the book is called "half my size: how i ate to lose 150 pounds." carolyn, a pleasure meeting you and congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> what heck of a goal. thank you. perhaps not so good if you're trying to lose weight.

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welcome back. 5:56. your weather first. you'll need a jacket today but i think we'll have a dry day,

except the mountains where there will be snow showers. we're stilling with low to mid- 30s, a few upper 20s. we'll go through the day with peaks of sunshine but more clouds expected. 39 in town. 44 for fredericksburg. easton 41. we'll get into the middle of the afternoon. most of us will top out in the mid-40s with a few low 50s south of the district. mike and andrea? >> thank you, howard. 5:57. history buffs are celebrating a big discovery. scientists have confirmed a skeleton found under a parking lot is that of richard iii. >> he's the last english king to die in battle. it happened in 1485, 527 years ago. mark philips has more on richard's rediscovery. >> reporter: there was a time archaeologists have discovered when being king of evening lldz was a dead end job. it certainly was for richard iii whose battle battered bones have been found stuffed into a

grave definitely not fit for a king. a grave that was lost for 500 years and discovered under what is now a parking lot. the skeleton's curved spine matched the historic tale of the hunch bark king. the wounds matched story of a king killed in battle but it turned -- but it took modern science to find an ancient king. comparing the d.n.a. in the bones with that of a descendant discovered 16 generations later. >> the phone rings and someone says, i'm a historian. you're related to richard iii. congratulations. >> more or less. i think he probably started the conversation by saying i'm not a lunatic. >> reporter: the winners of course get to write history and richard being a loser got a very bad press, including being accused of the murder of to of his relatives here at the tower of london. now, though, 500 years later, he gets a measure of revenge. finally he is the center of

attention. for royal historians like sally dickinson smith, it's history come alive. >> it's a fascinating murder mystery. all of richard's life that we can still find archaeology like that and particularly under a municipal car park, i think that's fabulous. >> reporter: the king in the parking lot, history dug up and maybe rewritten. mark philips, cbs news, london. >> richard iii fell at the battle of bosworth ending the war of the ruses [ inaudible ] -- war of the roses [ inaudible ] >> you should have heard andrea and mike. >> i love this play. we thank you for